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Central and Eastern China, Taiwan and Korea

  42 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater


This page includes all of the provinces and autonomous regions of China except Tibet, Xinjiang, Sichuan, and Yunnan.  Taiwan and South Korea follow at the bottom of this page.  North Korea has one ultra, Paektu-san which is on the border with China.  Paektu-san is #1 on this list.

According to our research, the People's Republic of China has 178 ultra-prominent summits.  This is equal to almost 12% of the world's total, and ranks China as #1 in this category.  33 of these summits appear to be directly on the border with a neighboring country:  Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, North Korea, or Vietnam.

In order to best display the data, we are presenting the mountains of China on four lists:
China I - Tibet (Xizang)
China II - Sinkiang (Xinjiang)
China III - Sichuan and Yunnan
China IV - Central and Eastern China, including Taiwan and Korea

Additionally, there is a  high degree of overlap between the Tibet and Sinkiang lists and the High Asia I (Karakoram) and High Asia II (Central Himalaya) lists.

The four lists that comprise China reflective extensive research into names, elevations and promience values conducted over a period of several years.  China is completely mapped at 1:50,000 scale, but these maps are heavily restricted to the public and we have unfortunately not had access to much of this information.  Information about source material is in the footnotes below.     

Compiled 2003-6 by Jonathan de Ferranti, Eberhard Jurgalski and Aaron Maizlish.  List ©2006 www.peaklist.org

revised July 7, 2007
Rank
 Summit Name
 Alt. Names
 Province
 Country
 Elevation
 Prominence
 Saddle
 Latitude
 Longitude
 ID Code
 Elev
(ft.)
 Prom
(ft.) 		Notes

1 Paektu-san
Jilin/North Korea China/North Korea 2744 2593 151 41º59'36"N 128º04'39"E AS075 9003 8507
2 Altun Shan
Qinghai/Xinjiang China 5830 2528 3302 39º15'03"N 093º41'48"E AS086 19127 8294 [2]
3 Dashennongjia
Hubei China 3100 2270 830 31º26'24"N 110º18'27"E AS134 10170 7447
4 Taibai Shan
Shaanxi China 3750 2232 1518 33º57'18"N 107º45'48"E AS139 12303 7323
5 Kangze'gyai Shule Nanshan
 Qinghai China 5808 2231 3577 38º30'00"N 097º43'30"E AS084 19055 7319
6 HP Helan Shan
Ningxia China 3540 2098 1442 38º50'00"N 105º57'00"E AS172 11614 6883
7 Huanggang Shan
Fujian/Jiangxi China 2170 1965 205 27º51'39"N 117º47'03"E AS222 7119 6447
8 Dradullungshog A'nyêmaqên Shan, Anye Machin, Maqen Gangri Qinghai China 6282 1960 4322 34º47'54"N 099º27'45"E AS237 20610 6430
9 Buka Daban Feng Bukadaban Feng, Syn Qing Feng Qinghai/Xinjiang China 6860 1922 4938 36º01'27"N 090º51'57"E AS249 22506 6306
10 Nanfengmian
Jiangxi/Hunan China 2140 1921 219 26º18'48"N 114º02'12"E AS246 7021 6302
11 Wuzhi Shan HP Hainan
 Guangdong (Hainan) China 1840 1840 0 18º53'54"N 109º42'15"E AS286 6037 6037
12 Shengtang Shan
Guangxi China 1935 1785 150 23º58'30"N 110º05'51"E AS325 6348 5856
13 Beitai Ding
Shangxi China 3061 1784 1277 39º04'45"N 113º34'00"E AS326 10043 5853
14 Fenghuang Shan
Guizhou China 2570 1762 808 27º52'54"N 108º40'54"E AS336 8432 5781
15 Jiucai Ling
Guangxi/Hunan China 2010 1735 275 25º30'51"N 111º19'45"E AS355 6594 5692
16 Lianhua Feng
 Lotus Peak, HP Huang Shan
 Anhui China 1864 1734 130 30º07'30"N 118º10'00"E AS327 6115 5689 [14]
17 Wugong Shan
Jiangxi China 1920 1722 198 27º27'18"N 114º10'24"E AS368 6299 5650
18 SOB GANGRI
Qinghai China 6224 1674 4550 35º39'09"N 094º15'03"E AS435 20420 5492
19 Miao'er Shan
Guangxi China 2140 1647 493 25º52'00"N 110º24'45"E AS446 7021 5403
20 Tianzhu Shan
Anhui China 1760 1642 118 31º03'42"N 116º11'15"E AS449 5774 5387
21 Unknown Name
Hubei China 2300 1635 665 30º14'12"N 110º34'36"E AS453 7546 5364
22 Benjiwo
Hunan China 1953 1625 328 25º14'51"N 112º00'12"E AS472 6407 5331
23 Jiuling Shan
Jiangxi China 1790 1624 166 28º53'00"N 114º57'03"E AS470 5873 5328
24 PAISHIDIN
Guangdong China 1895 1622 273 24º55'39"N 112º59'27"E AS493 6217 5321
25 KOGANTAG
Qinghai/Xinjiang China 4800 1611 3189 38º37'54"N 090º38'24"E AS486 15748 5285
26 Datian Ding
Guangdong China 1704 1609 95 22º17'27"N 111º12'54"E AS496 5590 5279
27 TEVODIAN
Shaanxi China 2120 1597 523 32º51'54"N 108º22'21"E AS518 6955 5239
28 Yujing Feng
Jiangxi China 1810 1596 214 28º54'30"N 118º03'36"E AS502 5938 5236
29 HP Qilian Shan
Gansu China 5547 1593 3954 39º12'12"N 098º32'39"E AS501 18199 5226
30 Unknown Name
Guangxi China 1857 1574 283 24º53'33"N 111º10'00"E AS551 6092 5164
31 Daming Shan
Guangxi China 1785 1570 215 23º23'09"N 108º30'12"E AS552 5856 5151
32 NAN SHAN
Qinghai China 4880 1540 3340 36º20'15"N 101º12'03"E AS582 16010 5052
33 Unknown Name
Gansu China 5350 1537 3813 39º20'51"N 098º12'06"E AS566 17552 5043
34 Huangmao Jian
Zhejiang China 1930 1530 400 27º53'36"N 119º11'12"E AS599 6332 5020
35 Baojie Ling
Guangxi China 1930 1530 400 25º33'33"N 110º57'42"E AS600 6332 5020
36 Qingliang Feng
Anhui/Zhejiang China 1787 1521 266 30º06'03"N 118º51'42"E AS619 5863 4990
37
 Tai Shan
Shandong
 China
 1545
 1505
 40
 36º15'21"N
 117º06'27"E
 001649
 5069
 4938
38 HP Lenglong Ling
Qinghai China 5254 1504 3750 37º41'36"N 101º30'18"E AS656 17237 4934
39 Qaidam Shan Tsaidam Shan Qinghai China 5759 1500 4259 38º02'18"N 095º19'27"E AS624 18894 4921 [38]
E1 Guandi Shan
Shangxi China 2810 1493 1317 37º53'54"N 111º29'30"E AS628 9219 4898
E2 Daiyun Shan
Fujian China 1849 1489 360 25º40'57"N 118º11'09"E AS654 6066 4885
E3 Baishi Feng
Fujian China 1847 1482 365 26º45'24"N 116º55'48"E AS686 6060 4862
E4 Yingge Ling
Guangdong (Hainan) China 1815 1476 339 19º02'09"N 109º32'33"E AS687 5955 4842
E5 EMANAN SHAN
Qinghai China 4930 1464 3466 39º18'24"N 095º36'33"E AS672 16174 4803
E6 Subao Ding
Hubei China 1943 1455 488 27º10'33"N 110º18'21"E AS714 6375 4774
E7 Jiugong Shan
Jiangxi China 1640 1450 190 29º21'36"N 114º35'42"E AS718 5381 4757
 
TAIWAN
1 Jade Mountain Yu Shan
Taiwan 3952 3952 0 23º28'12"N 120º57'27"E AS011 12966 12966
2 Syue Shan
 Hsueh Shan
Taiwan 3886 1932 1954 24º23'00"N 121º13'48"E AS242 12743 63

SOUTH KOREA
1 Halla-san HP Cheju-do
S. Korea 1950 1950 0 33º21'42"N 126º31'45"E AS232 6398 6398
2 Chiri-san

S. Korea 1915 1696 219 35º20'21"N 127º43'48"E AS389 6283 5564


Sources: 

Data Sources:  This page represents years of compilation by the authors from a variety of sources including direct communication with researchers and from published material, principally 1) various mountaineering literature, 2) Soviet topographic mapping at 1:100,000 and 1:200,000,  3) extensive analysis of SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) digital elevation data, 4) names and elevations in publications by the China Mountaineering Association and in the geonames database, 5) Chinese Snow Mountain topographic map series, and 6) both commercial and national topographic surveys including the recent Finnish survey of Nepal where applicable.  We have striven to sort through extremely divergent elevation values and toponymy in order to provide a list that best reflects accurate and supportable data.  Notably, we have analyzed all published values against SRTM for reasonableness, and in many cases propose here for the first time, elevation estimates that we believe are more accurate than old survey values.

Names:  We have not been able to determine reliable placenames for a significant number of summits in China.  The tradition in Tibet and China is to give a name to an entire mountain range, and many of the less-famous peaks do not have well-known local names apart from that of their range.  Names in quotation marks are working names for unnamed summits (mostly in the Eastern Karakoram) from an unpublished 1984 study.  Names in capitals are those that we transliterated directly from the cyrillic on the Russian topographic maps, and have not thus far confirm their accuracy or pinyin spelling.  In addition, 28 peaks in China are name unknown, where we feel that the name of the larger range is not descriptive enough.  Submissions of names are welcome.

Saddle and prominence values are derived almost exclusively from SRTM data, with some reliance on Soviet mapping.  It is generally felt that these values are accurate to ±20 meters.

FOOTNOTES

[2] Altun Shan:  The official altitude of 5798m in the CMG was overruled by SRTM, which indicates that it is higher.

[16]  Lian Hua Feng:  According to Wikipedia, this holy mountain is the high point of the Huang Shan.  Another source puts nearby Guangming Ding as higher, but we believe this is in error.

[38] If Qaidam Shan is 5759m then it is an ultra, but SRTM suggests it’s a bit lower and probably doesn't make it.

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